- "Destined to be forever spoken of with misty-eyed bragging rights by anyone who sees it."
Ben Bratley, The New York Times
- I'm just trying to make whoever read this to feel like they're watching this playwright with their eyes...
Original Off-Broadway production - The show opened Off-Broadway at PlaywrightsHorizons, starring Mandy Patinkin and Bernadette Peters, in July 1983 and ran for 25 performances. Only the first act was performed and even that was still in development. After seeing the show at Playwrights, composer Leonard Bernstein wrote to his friend Sondheim, calling the show "brilliant, deeply conceived, canny, magisterial and by far the most personal statement I've heard from you thus far. Bravo."
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Original Broadway production - The musical transferred to the Booth Theatre on Broadway on May 2, 1984. The second act was finalized and the show was "frozen" only a few days before the opening.
- Sunday opened on Broadway to mixed critical responses. The New York Times theatre critic Frank Rich wrote: "I do know... that Mr. Sondheim and Mr. Lapine have created an audacious, haunting and, in its own intensely personal way, touching work. Even when it fails – as it does on occasion – Sundayin the Park is setting the stage for even more sustained theatrical innovations yet to come." Then, it closed on October 13, 1985, after 604 performances and 35 previews.
- Although it was considered a brilliant artistic achievement for Sondheim and nominated for 10 Tony Awards, the show won only 2, Best Scenic Design and Best Lighting Design
- On May 15, 1994, the original cast of Sunday in the Park with George returned to Broadway for a tenth anniversary concert, which was also a benefit for "Friends in Deed".
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